It doesn’t necessarily take a large quantity of a substance to have a significant effect. Contaminants in water and greenhouse gases in Earth’s atmosphere are commonly measured in parts per million (ppm) or parts per billion (ppb). In this activity, students explore how many dilutions of a pure substance (food coloring) are needed to produce a 1 part per million concentration.

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What Do Concentrations Mean?